B (2:12)

Nice.

A (2:13)

How did you guys meet Real Greg? There you go.

B (2:16)

That's my question. Yeah, we met on Bumble Greg. I don't know if you've heard about it, but it's a dating app and Alex had, I think his profile was like, I looked sick. Own. Own for gyms, working out, whiskey, cheap bourbon.

A (2:33)

Expensive steaks.

B (2:34)

Expensive steaks. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Something cheesy. And then you had a picture of you.

A (2:39)

She says, as she. As it converted her.

B (2:41)

And then, then you had a picture of yourself from college in the water from spring break.

A (2:48)

My mind. She says that I was 25. College was not like that long ago.

B (2:52)

I know, but when I met you, I was like, you don't look the same.

A (2:55)

I was bigger.

B (2:58)

And then we met for froyo for our first date. And I think Alex wrote me off immediately because I have a back tat.

A (3:04)

I did.

B (3:04)

And he saw it, which, by the way, I got when I was like 18 and drunk and high. So sorry.

A (3:09)

But yeah, it was tough.

B (3:11)

Then you immediately were like, rude to me. Not rude, but you just were very

A (3:15)

trying to get the date over with neutral.

B (3:17)

And then we sat down and started talking. Then you warmed up. And then I realized that you needed to eat and that was part of it. And then once you had the food, I think you were much friendlier.

A (3:25)

Nothing like sprinkles to cheer the day up. All right, I'm going to ask you a follow up that's business related.

B (3:31)

Me?

A (3:31)

Yeah.

B (3:32)

Okay. What do you want to ask me?

A (3:33)

Okay. Give tips on how to get into a relationship when you're working to get to your best life. Like start a business and risk stuff. I know what that means. Crazy.

B (3:41)

It's funny when people say, I want to have my best life as if a relationship is not part of your best life. I find that ironic because, like, we, for example, have like built our lives together. I think it depends on what kind of relationship you want. But in general, people are like, well, it's just really hard. I don't have time. I'm like, well, what do you think it's like when you're in a relationship?

A (4:00)

Like, even less time.

B (4:01)

It's even less time. So, yeah, it's interesting stuff out there. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

A (4:09)

I think something that you said to me last night actually was. You were. You were talking about something. What?

B (4:14)

It's not convenient?

A (4:15)

Yeah, it's not convenient. And I think that's the thing is it's like right now we have this big societal, like, narrative that everyone should maximize all options. And so it's all about freedom and

B (4:25)

independence and like, like maximum efficiency.

A (4:28)

Yeah, don't let anything tie you down, all that kind of stuff. But the thing is, like, I think it's about having options so that you can make a selection. The goal is not to always maximize options because at some point you need to decide. And so the easiest way that I can think about this is like, let's say you're like, I want to maximize the options of where I live. Right. And so as a result, you'll not have a home anywhere because you're like, well, I want to be able to do the mountains and I want to be able to do the valleys and I want to be able to do the desert and I also want to be able to do the snow. And the thing is, there is no location that does all those things. Right. Unless you're in the Dubai mall. But the idea follows, which is that in order to reap some of the rewards, you do need to pick. And when you pick, we define commitment as the elimination of alternatives. Which means that if you're like you said differently, you cannot have a lifelong partner and then also have ultimate optionality. If ultimate optimality is the thing that is more important to you, then you will not have a lifelong partner. And that's the choice. And to be clear, I don't think either of us are saying there's anything wrong with that. Just know the trade you're making.

B (5:28)

Yeah, it's not convenient. I mean, it's like pursuing anything in life. It's like it's not going to be convenient. And is it worth the trade? Yeah.

A (5:35)

Aiden Watson. I'm going to go definitively yes for pineapple on pizza, preferably pineapples and jalapeno. And I speak, I speak very, very aggressively about that.

B (5:44)

I like ranch with pizza.

A (5:46)

Yeah, because you're ranch and Mac and cheese on the inside. Okay.

B (5:50)

I like pineapple too, but I like ranch and pineapple rather than jalapeno and pineapple. Jalapeno is spicy. Spicy and spicy out.

A (5:57)

Okay. So juice.

B (5:59)

Everyone knows that's true.

A (6:01)

Jesus. What do we. Am I asking? I asked you. So you asked me one.

B (6:06)

He's like, I'm going to ignore that. We don't talk like this on my channel. I don't care.

A (6:12)

Pick one.

B (6:13)

Me. Okay. Two year superfan at 19. I've consumed all your content. Thousands of cold calls, pushing seven figures. How do I get in a personal relationship with both of you didn't expect that one.

A (6:24)

That took a twist.

B (6:25)

Sorry about that. I would have ignored that one had I read the whole thing.

A (6:30)

Get to 50 million.

B (6:33)

That's not even true. I know.

A (6:35)

It's not even true.

B (6:35)

True.

A (6:37)

I don't know.

B (6:37)

I don't know either.

A (6:38)

I don't know, to be honest with you, man. Actually, there is a way, which is like, if we have a role and you're like, I want to spend five years learning and lead something, you can apply for a role at acq. That's actually the way we were with

B (6:51)

our team most of the time.

A (6:53)

Yeah. Oh, my God. By a lot, I mean, we have, like, 18 exits on the team. Like, we have a lot of people who started business, founded businesses, sold them, and then joined our team.

B (7:03)

So.

A (7:04)

Yeah.

B (7:05)

All right, I'm gonna ask you one last question.

A (7:07)

Oh, one last one. That's gonna be good.

B (7:09)

Okay. I recently got diagnosed with adhd. And I suppose it explains a lot of the inaction I've always had. Should I just try to take meds for it, or is that cheating? Or should I just try to use willpower for more discipline?

A (7:20)

Where'd she give me this one?

B (7:22)

Well, what if people told you, oh, my God, how many times have you been diagnosed with something?

A (7:28)

Something well diagnosed or people selling? Alex. So I'll tell you. I'll tell you a speech that I gave to someone that I cared about deeply, who let add, adhd, and other letters, I think, ruin their lives. And so when I had the conversation with this individual, I said, what you see as a handicap, I see as a superpower. It's all how we frame it. Somebody who has ADHD or ADD typically has a harder time abandoning tasks and can focus on one thing for extended periods of time. The issue is that, like, when that happens, it's like everything else disappears. And so the idea that, like, you have something or don't have something. Medicate, don't medicate. I'm not a doctor. Listen to your own. Whatever legal disclaimer we'll put below here. But it's the end of the day, like, needs to get done. And most of the time, you have other things in your environment that are more interesting to you than the thing, the task at hand. And so I will explain how I work. And different people work in different ways. What has worked well for me, as somebody who's very easily distracted, is that I remove all stimulus from the entire. From the environment. And so let me give you an extreme example. If I were locked into a room that had no corners, all white everywhere around, and there was nothing but a single black dot on the wall. What becomes the most interesting thing that gathers all my attention, the black dot. And so there's probably a black dot in the room that you are right now watching this, but you haven't noticed the black dot because there are other things that are competing for your attention. And so in order to focus, focus is through subtraction, not addition. There is no productivity hack that works. The only one is by removing everything else that removes productivity. And so somebody who is fully focused does literally nothing but the work. And the best way to make sure that you do nothing but the work is to make sure there's nothing else to do but the work. And so, fundamentally, I think for you, you would get a larger lift in your throughput or your work capacity by removing everything else that you do. That is not what you intend to do, and that is my productivity hack for you. So whether you want to medicate yourself or not, that's your call. I don't think it's going to change much. I'll say it differently. There's a lot of people I know who take Adderall who still can't get shit done. So I don't think it's going to be like, you'll probably benefit more from just exercising and limiting the stimuli in your work environment so that you have minimal disruptions. And I think what you need to do is you need to confront the work. The reality is that most times, it takes significantly less time to accomplish a task than you think it does once you begin, but you delay longer from beginning the task than the entire task takes in totality. And so this is the classic. It takes 20 hours to become proficient at almost any skill. It's just that people delay the first 20 hours by a decade. You just keep waiting for some perfect environment that's never going to happen.

B (10:30)

That's a great answer.

A (10:33)

Thank you. I appreciate that. My love.

B (10:36)

Shall we wrap?

A (10:37)

We shall wrap.